9/18/2013

Despite the existence of my FAQ I am constantly being asked these three questions, so I think it's time to do some clarification and reiteration of these Greatest Hits questions.Q: When does the WARM BODIES prequel come out?

A: You mean The New Hunger? It came out months ago, fool! But there's a catch: it's only in ebook form, and only available from Zolabooks.com That's right, it's NOT ON AMAZON. Or iTunes, or anywhere else. Just Zolabooks.com for reasons having to do with anarchy and raging against the machine and supporting intriguing new platforms with great potential for innovation, and so on. This exclusive arrangement will change at some point, because I myself am a paper purist and eventually there will be a physical edition which will probably spread into digital editions on other platforms, but for now: Zolabooks.com

YES, you can still read it on your Kindle, iPad, even your desktop if you don't own a tablet. You just have to download the epub from Zolabooks.com

Q: When will THE NEW HUNGER come out in paperback?

It's of utmost importance to me that physical copies exist, because I know many of you don't read ebooks, and I actually don't either. I want the book on my shelf, sandwiched between Warm Bodies and Untitled Isaac Marion Zombie Novel. ("Book 3" for short.) But the fate of The New Hunger is intertwined with the fate of Book 3, so I won't know exactly when a paperback of TNH will be published until I know exactly how and when Book3 will be published. I can promise TNH will be published before Book3, because it will be essential to understanding Book 3, but that's about all I can promise. So if you're in any hurry, I'd suggest learning to love ebooks and heading on over to Zola

HOWEVER: If you're lucky enough to live somewhere in the British Isles, you can get your hands on a paperback from Vintage UK on October 29th, 2013. I know, it makes no sense, I can't...I can't even try to explain it, so just accept this reality, fill your saloon with petrol, check the air in the tyres, drive to the supermarket and buy the book, throw it in the boot, go home to your flat, get a bag of crisps, and read it in the loo while taking a shite.

Q: When will the WARM BODIES sequel come out?

A: It's really hard to project a completion date for a book like this. If I were writing one of those books with the phrase "A [Character's Name] Novel" on the cover, some kind of episodic franchise thriller with a clearly predetermined path, or even a traditional sequel designed to simply repeat the patterns of the original while expanding them slightly, maybe I could meet a specific deadline. But this is a weird book, expanding on the foundation of Warm Bodies in a lot of brain-straining ways and presenting me with a lot of intellectual, philosophical, and ethical challenges that I've never encountered before. It's a sequel to Warm Bodies in the way that Lord of the Rings was a sequel to The Hobbit, and with that kind of expanding scope, there are a lot of potential pitfalls, so it's hard to fathom a timeline.

But, with that said, my possibly naive hope is to finish it mid to late 2014.

That is all. Enjoy the remainder of your life.

-Isaac

17 comments:

Wow. I know you said the 3rd book would be big and complicated, but making the comparison between Warm Bodies/Hobbit to 3rd book/Lord of the Rings? That really made it clear. I do not envy you your task, Mr. Marion, but I know the end result will be fantastic. Go, author man. Go.

That may be a SLIGHT exaggeration...it's not like I'm stretching it into three volumes and adding a million new POVs, but it's the best example I can think of of a story that began as a simple, compact tale exploring familiar arcs and themes, and then expanded into something much bigger and more ambitious.

I gotcha. ;-) Hey, at least this way, every time you think it's too hard, you can remember you don't have to invent multiple languages in order to finish Warm Bodies 3. Quel marth! ("Good luck" in Elvish. Yes, I looked it up. Yes, I'm a nerd.)

Hi. You sent me a message on Facebook in response to one I sent you a while ago. I want to let you know that the post office did send my book back. They apparently forgot to scan when it arrived and decided to keep it for three weeks before sending it back... Anyway, it's still in the box and all packaged up. Should I resend it or just hold onto it for now?

If that's of any interest to you for info, I bought The New Hunger's Kindle version copy on Amazon.fr (in France) and on the website of amazon.fr they announce the actual traditionally published paper version of the book (that i'm also waiting for because i love "real" books better but couldn't wait for because i was eager to know the story) for october 24th 2013.

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